March 23, 2011
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353 N. Castlegory
Houston, TX. 77049
A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE
North Shore Senior High School Choir
May 13, 2019
Dear Director,
On behalf of the Galena Park Independent School District, I want to welcome you and your choir to the 2011 Region XIX UIL Middle School Vocal Concert and Sight-Reading Contest. It will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, April 12 & 13, 2011. Please be sure to familiarize your students with the locations and the rules. You will find the directions and a map of our building on the UIL website.
Please assemble in our cafeteria at least ten minutes before your warm-up time. A student monitor will guide you and your choir to the warm-up location. If the monitor is not present please call me immediately (832-386-4311). The contest will run on a 20 minutes schedule with one warm up room. That is twenty minutes for each the warm up, stage performance, and sight-reading. Your warm up time includes 2 ½ minutes travel time to the warm up room and 2 ½ minutes travel time to the stage. This is approximate. This means you only receive 15 minutes on the risers in the warm up room. If you are late to warm-up, you will not receive any additional time. In order to keep the contest flowing smoothly we will stick strictly to the schedule. The monitors will be instructed to move you from the choir room to the stage 2 ½ minutes before your performance time.
Please be advised of the following rules:
1. No one will be allowed into the auditorium once a choir has entered the stage.
Audience members will sit in the back of the auditorium, behind the judges, during the performance. Choirs may not sit in the auditorium all day. Plan on listening to a few choirs, and then move your students out to the cafeteria area so that others may have a turn.
2. A director or sponsor must supervise the students at all times.
3. Misbehavior in the audience will not be tolerated. We want each choir to have ideal performing conditions.
4. No recording devices, radios, CD/MP3 players, headsets, cell phones or pagers will be allowed at the contest site. Directors with cell phones must turn them off. Cell phones interfere with the recording equipment.
5. The student holding area is in the cafeteria. Students will sit in the far back section next to the windows. During our school lunch time all choirs will be moved to the small gym. They are NOT TO WANDER THE BUILDING or go to the rest rooms UNESCORTED. There are nearly four thousand high school students on this campus.
6. We will not have a concession stand available. We will have tables there where students may eat and drink items they have purchased from our vending machines or brought from home. However: there must be no food, drinks, candy, or gum in the auditorium at anytime.
7.All accompanying adults must have I.D. Security at the school is a priority. Please remind accompanists and other adults to arrive early, as they must check-in at the front office. A badge will be generated using their valid Texas driver’s license. Directors may use their school ID badges.
Director's Information
1. Please drop students off at the cafeteria covered walkway entrance on the west side of the campus. Students will enter through the west doors across from the baseball field and go directly into the cafeteria to be seated. Buses may park in the student parking area on the west side of the campus on the back rows by the tennis courts and band practice field. There are shuttle buses arriving and departing from this area all day so please plan to arrive early as there will be delays.
2. Results will be posted on the web site.
3. Please keep your students in the cafeteria or the auditorium while you are not in the competition process.
4. There will be eight four-step risers on the stage and eight three-step risers in the warm-up room and sight-reading room.
5. Remember to bring your three sets of original copies with the measures numbered and a completed Form #1 to the Contest Office, Room 603, when you arrive.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call me.
Sincerely,
Enrique A. Collazo
Choir Director
NSSH
353 N. Castlegory
Houston, TX 77049
In case of emergency or bus failure you can reach me at:
832-386-4311